At a charming Kayan restaurant overlooking Yangon’s Pazundaung Creek, the waiter uses a cleaver to crack open a clay mound. He extracts a bamboo-wrapped chicken, dripping in its own juices. It’s been ...

Yangon’s crumbling footpaths are lined with people indulging in its exciting and diverse street food, but Myanmar’s culture of hospitality means you’ll inevitably be invited in for a home-cooked meal, ...

My first stop is Gekko, a Japanese restaurant with a cosy cocktail lounge. The Asian bartending grapevine had given me a list of places to visit and people to meet. One of them is Jen Queen, who, to ...

Two days after the end of Chinese New Year, Rabbit Bakery is still busy churning out pastries for eager customers. Inside the cramped room in downtown Yangon, Myanmar, shop owner Aung Kyaw Moe ...

Burma's cuisine combines influences from south-east Asia, China and India. Snacks range from favourites such as samosas to more unusual offerings such as bat skewers but meals tend to be spicy and ...

Founders of Lahpet in Spitalfields, Zaw Mahesh and Dan Anton, are well versed in Burmese cuisine. Zaw grew up in Yangon, the country's capital city, at a time when it was tightly controlled by the ...

YANGON -- There is something in the air around Myanmar's developing restaurant industry. It smells a lot like standard fried chicken, but this time it is seasoned with a liberal dash of high-end ...

YANGON (AFP) - Fried chicken aficionados queued for hours at Myanmar's first KFC restaurant on Tuesday, as the United States restaurant chain became the latest big foreign brand to open an outlet in ...